About Me

Gregg Walker is a Harlem Resident and 1997 graduate of Yale Law School who worked as an investment banker for 9 years and was the Vice President of Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions at Viacom for 3 years. Gregg served as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Sony from 2009 to 2016, and he launched his own private investing firm in July 2016 (www.gawalker.co). Gregg was chosen in 2010 by Crain's as one of NYC's 40 Under 40 Rising Stars (http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/40under40/profiles/2010/gregg-walker). Gregg is a Deacon at Abyssinian Baptist Church and served as the chairman of the Board of the Harlem YMCA. He has served on the Boards of movie studio MGM and music publishing companies Sony/ATV and EMI Music Publishing. He is also a Board member of Harlem RBI and Derek Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation. He is a former Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a representative of the US at the 2002 Young Leaders Conference of the American Council on Germany. Gregg is also a member of many other foundations and community organizations.

Here is New York State, Mayor Bloomberg has supported former Staten Island Republican Rep. Vito Fossella, one of the gun lobby's most loyal public officials. He is also the biggest donor to the Republicans in the New York State Senate, though those Republicans have successfully opposed Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to bring bullet microstamping to our state. We have supported the Mayor's microstamping push, but the Mayor is the largest donor to the group that is blocking the Mayor's efforts. He is truly his own worst enemy, and people in NYC are being killed because of the successful opposition to gun control by elected officials who remain in office because of the Mayor's financial support.

Less than a week after Aurora, the two candidates are back to
politics as usual, attacking each other on gaffes and trivialities. If
not now, when is the time for them to outline their solutions to gun
violence?
After the massing shooting in Tucson last year, we heard: “Now is
not the time.” We heard the same refrain after shooting sprees at
Virginia Tech and Columbine. It’s as if as a country, we cannot mourn
the dead and protect the living at the same time.
I refuse to accept that — and as a country, we have never accepted
that when our safety has been at risk. When our country was attacked by
terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, we did not wait to respond. We took
immediate steps to prevent another attack. Here in New York City, we
gave our police officers the tools they need to do their jobs — and
protect innocent lives.
But when 34 people are murdered with guns every day, Washington just
looks the other way — even when massacres occur in a single place. It
has been 18 months since the Tucson shooting, and still Washington has
not taken the steps necessary to ensure that all people with mental
health and drug histories, including the Tucson shooter, are precluded
from buying guns.
The reason for the inaction is that — according to conventional
wisdom — talking about gun regulations is unpopular with voters. But
when you ask the American people — including gun owners — if they favor
smarter, tougher measures to keep guns out of the hands of criminals,
they overwhelmingly say they do.

If Bloomberg would back up these statements with a small portion of his billions of dollars of wealth, he might make a difference and save lives.